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  1. The Age of Projects
    Published: [2016]; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781442687349
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Civilization, Western; Humanities; Intellectual life; Science and the humanities; Aufklärung; Forschung <Motiv>; Englisch; Fortschritt <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Literatur
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  2. The Age of Projects
    Published: [2016]; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781442687349
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Civilization, Western; Humanities; Intellectual life; Science and the humanities; Aufklärung; Forschung <Motiv>; Englisch; Fortschritt <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Literatur
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    "The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science

  3. The age of projects
    Contributor: Novak, Maximillian E. (Publisher)
    Published: 2008; © 2008
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England]

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Novak, Maximillian E. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442687349
    Subjects: Humanities; Science and the humanities; Intellectual life; Civilization, Western; Aufklärung; Forschung <Motiv>; Englisch; Fortschritt <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (415 pages), illustrations
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  4. The age of projects
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Anderson [sic] Clark Memorial Library, Toronto

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    ISBN: 0802098738; 1442687347; 9780802098733; 9781442687349
    Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 9
    Subjects: Humanités; Sciences et sciences humaines; Vie intellectuelle / Histoire / 18e siècle; Civilisation occidentale / 18e siècle; REFERENCE / Questions & Answers; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Civilization, Western; Humanities; Intellectual life; Science and the humanities; Geschichte; Humanities; Science and the humanities; Intellectual life; Civilization, Western; Aufklärung; Literatur; Fortschritt <Motiv>; Englisch; Wissenschaft <Motiv>; Forschung <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 404 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    1. Introduction / Maximillian E. Novak -- 2. Family, inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the rebellion / Margery Kingsley -- 3. The interplay of past and present in Dryden's Palamon and Arcite / Paul Hammond -- 4. Trojan originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida / Elliott Visconsi -- Canon versus survival in 'ancient music' of the eighteenth century / William Weber -- A revolution in political economy? / Steven C.A. Pincus -- 'Wandering ghosts of trade whymsies': projects, gender, commerce, and imagination in the mind of Daniel Defoe / Kimberly Latta -- Living forever in early modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the project for immortality / David Boyd Haycock -- Johnson before Boswell in eighteenth-century France: notes toward the impossible project of reclaiming a man of letters / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Art from nowhere: the academy in Utopia / Albert Boime -- Composing Westminster Bridge: public improvement and national identity in eighteenth-century London / Alison F. O'Byrne -- Here comes the son: a Shandean project / Manuel Schonhorn -- Science, projects, computers, and the state: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian academy / Martin Gierl -- Geographical projects in the later eighteenth century: imperial myths and realities / Carole Fabricant -- Forging figures of invention in eighteenth-century Britain / Sarah Tindal Kareem -- Measure for measure: projectors and the manufacture of enlightenment, 1770-1820 / Larry Stewart